Can't get behind it. Cheating is one of my least favorite character traits. There is no way I could be ok with it.
I was poking fun at the mention of the "Barry Bonds Dilemma" mention. One, was it really cheating? Two, everyone was doing it. But the best player is the one who gets put in the gallows.
Have the circumference of the rim expand by a quarter inch during the game on the basket the blazers are shooting on. Have it decrease by an 1/8 of inch for the opposing team. A standard professional basketball rim has a circumference of 30 inches. A standard professional men's basketball is 29.5 inches in circumference, leaving only a half-inch of free space for the ball to travel down through the hoop.
I don't think that's right, Sly. You can (with force) fit two balls through the same hoop at the same time. There's a factor of almost 2 in how wide the hoop is compared to the ball.
The diameter of a rim is fixed at 18", which makes for a circumference of (pi)*d ~= 56.5in. The diameter of a ball is 9.55".
Jesus. We're trying to get HCP to lay off of calling us nerds and you go and do this. *pushes up glasses, adjusts pocket protector, gathers calculus and trigonometry books.* Fucking nerd.
After thinking about it a bit more, I've decided that a little cheating is not only OK, but appropriate. Why? The league does not give a level playing ground. Some teams are in no-tax states, some have nice weather, some have great nightlife.... The Portlands and Minnesotas of the world are not competitively compensated in any way.
This isn't life or death. Do it right, or don't effing play. Now, if you study the book to know every rule, loophole, etc...good preparation. Cheating to win? Not my team (said as a Blazer, Navy, Mariner and Seahawk fan..so I know a lot about losing with character.)
I don't question specific players. Steroids were too rampant, and I'm not going to accuse single players, just the entire group. That being said, when he first started having some freak muscle injuries, people were saying (not directly about Griffey) that freak muscle injuries were tied to steroids. I ultimately don't think Griffey used steroids, though, at least not beyond maybe trying them and deciding against them. That being said, Griffey's reputation and HOF career was built on his first 10-11 seasons in MLB. Go look at his second decade in MLB. Not bad by any means, but not great, statistically-speaking. And he missed a shit-ton of games that second decade. As impressive as he was (and I was a huge fan), it's almost the tale of two careers.
No Fucking Way. You cheat and you put an asterisk on your team's legacy for history. Look at the NE, Do you think people are ever going to forget Spygate or Deflategate or any other Gate that team has been associated with? The fans will sbout "They hate because they aint us." Yet there are a special type of critic who remember every thing about history and write books about how scummy we all are. "Did you guys know that your hero was not a nice person?! HIS LEGACY IS DESTROYED!" Did you know that the Giants were stealing signs when Bobby Thompson hit the home run. There will always be a naysayer there to ruin you post parade buzz. You either earn it fair or you don't sleep at night afterwards.
Yeah, i don't think he did them. If he did, kudos to him for being smarter than the rest. His injuries really seemed to hurt his game. Whether steroid induced or not.
